3/8 Epcot Flower and Garden Festival Opening Day – 300 Photos! Fantasia, Pixar, Pixie Garden & More

Hi everyone!

Yesterday was a beautiful day for the opening of the Epcot Flower and Garden Festival! This is our 6th year covering it. I combined Future World and World Showcase this year, for a total of just over 300 photos (cut back from nearly 1200 I took on opening day and two preview days).

The Epcot Flower and Garden Festival is my favorite time of year at Walt Disney World. It's beautiful!

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Take a look our 2011 Festival coverage here after you finish with this article (which then leads to 2010, with my favorite entrance topiary).

We also narrated two Festival videos from this year here.

The mushrooms from Fantasia are just outside of the park:

 

 

Sorcerer Mickey continues the Fantasia theme inside:

 

 

A peacock sits behind Spaceship Earth:

 

 

Flower trees:

 

 

 

Characters from Peter Pan welcome guests on the walkway between Future World and World Showcase. The characters from Winnie the Pooh were here last year, and they switched places for 2012!